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Cursed (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 76

A predictable plot and cheesy special effects make Cursed a less-than-scary experience.

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Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15

A predictable plot and cheesy special effects make Cursed a less-than-scary experience.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 53,931

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Movie Info

When Nao Shingaki accepted a part-time job at a local convenience store, she never anticipated doing battle with the supernatural, but when the air at the malevolent mini-mart becomes thick with the scent of death, Nao must face her worst fears or lose her soul trying in this nightmarish tale of urban terror from first-time director Yoshihiro Hoshino. As events in the seemingly innocuous convenience store take an ominous turn for the worse, Nao is troubled by both the crippling stench emanating

PG-13, 1 hr. 20 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

Kevin Williamson

Jun 21, 2005

$19.2M

Dimension Films

Cast

All Critics (98) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (80) | DVD (32)

Makes you long for the days when teenage werewolves were beady-eyed, slavering versions of hairy-palm jokes.

March 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
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The scariest thing in the movie is a cameo by Scott Baio.

March 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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The special effects are particularly lame, and an insult to the proud werewolf tradition of An American Werewolf in London or the even better The Howling.

February 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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The scariest thing about this movie is the incredible waste of once-vital talent.

February 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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A third-rate effort, with a weak script, cheap-looking effects and no genuine frights.

February 28, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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How can you not feel affectionate toward a movie that includes a line like, 'I guess there's no such thing as safe sex with a werewolf'?

February 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Newsday
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Dumb werewolf movie may leave you feeling cursed.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

What can you say about a horror film when its spookiest cast member plays the innocent victim?

October 21, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

It really never deserved to be more than a quickie TV-movie on the WB, where it would've aired around Halloween and then faded into oblivion.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

A procession of silly startlements: a sudden loud sound here, a mysterious hand creeping in there. This isn't scary, it's irritating. And then it's tiresome.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: MTV | Comment

Let's hope that one day the studios realize that cutting films to make them a bit more kid friendly doesn't always equal a big payday at the box office.

February 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Dread Central | Comment

Until this past Friday, the worst werewolf film ever made was, hairy hands down, Mike Nichols' Wolf. Cursed now assumes that dubious distinction and someone is going to have to try very hard to wrestle it away.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment (1)
Film Threat

film whose authors require so many excuses doesn't deserve an audience

August 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Cursed

I am actually not really a Christina Ricci fan nor werevolves Movie but this was not Bad.

December 15, 2009
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Wahida K

Super Reviewer

Not the most exciting horror movie. Pretty dull in the first half, seriously considered switching it off, but decided to stick with it. Can't honestly say I am glad that I did, but it did pick up. The cast is decent, especially Christina Ricci and Judy Greer, (she was actually pretty funny when she got going). I

January 13, 2008
romy861

Super Reviewer

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